Thought on Enns

I have really enjoyed reading this book so far. It was been very insightful and thought provoking. I loved the section where he dealt with incarnation stories of the bible.  Christ is the most important incarnation story of the bible! Enns hit a home run for me when he talked about the magnitude of Christ [...]

On Lesson 4

While reading the historical introduction to Gilgamesh, I was interested to learn that writing was ultimately created due to the need for canals. We are taught in school that writing (sometimes we hear cuneiform) was first used in certain ancient cities, but I’m not sure I ever understood why a written language was needed, or [...]

On Inspiration and Incarnation

I’m going to go ahead and comment on Enns’ book, even though I’ll probably end up using some of what I put here in my review. I enjoyed reading it, but like some of you, it took me longer to get through the book than I anticipated, and I’m sure I will reread many of [...]

Reflection on Lesson 4

The section in Lesson 4 titled “Authorship Issues” really has me thinking.  In Mark 7:10, Jesus says, “For Moses said,…’”  He was referencing to scriptures in the OT, and those scriptures are Exodus 20:12, Deut. 5:16, Exodus 21:17, and Lev. 20:9.  When I first read the three questions I was a little puzzled.  After all, [...]

Enns’ Book

I have really enjoyed Enns’ book.  There are certainly some areas that I don’t agree. I felt like he spent way too much time on listing the similarities between the babylonian flood myths and the genesis flood account and not enough effort listing the contrasts.  However I believe his understanding of the wisdom literature is on [...]

Neh. 8:8

In the “Jewish Translations of the Bible” essay I was intrigued to do a little more digging on what was mentioned about Nehemiah 8 when Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the people.  The essays discusses how there is debateover how to interpret vs. 8 in particular due to the fact that it is an [...]

Thoughts on Inspiration and Incarnation

I wanted to comment on Peter Enns’ Inspiration and Incarnation.  I’m still reading and it’s taking longer for me to get through it than I originally anticipated.  I’m finding myself reading and re-reading certain sections to try to really get a handle on what point he’s trying to make.  I understand that he is addressing [...]

Reaction to “The Name of G-d”

     So far this has been a very interesting study for me.  I’ve been out of town for a couple of weeks and I’m trying to catch up, but still a little behind.  I’m going to try to make a couple of posts just to try to express some of my thoughts on the readings, [...]

JSB – Week 3 reading

You weren’t kidding when you mentioned that some of the reading may challenge us. The first few pages of the reading for this week has really struck me. The author of the essay says that the Exodus account in the Bible “…must have involved fewer people than the exaggerated biblical numbers… Given the lack of [...]

Getting Started

I have always loved language learning, and typically pick up on at least the basics of the language fairly quickly, but I must admit I am having a somewhat difficult time making sense of the Hebrew language. Perhaps it is because its alphabet is so unlike our own, and I too am a little confused [...]